Kol kondali Mandir @ Jammu
On the way to Katra from Jammu is a small detour to this temple. Kol Kandoli Temple is situated in Nagrota city at distance of 14 km from Jammu. This temple is part of lot of folk lore. Its believed that Mata Vaishno spent her early years here and the pind( the stone Pratima) is of a small girl. The temple also has Lord Ram's Parivar, Hanuman, Shiva, sanieshwaran, kali Mata, Puri Jagannath. The temple theerthan is supposed to have been brought out by Kol Mata herself to quench the thirst of Bheema. It's a small temple with each sanandhi separately being maintained by one poojari. Most surprising is to see the priest of Ram a and Saneeshwara temple being maintained by priests from Tamil Nadu here. There was a sadhu from Thiruvanamalai who settled years ago in this place. The whole temple is under the control of Army and he got the permission to build Ramar temple as well as Saneeshwaran. That's how we have the priets from Tam Nadu here. The temple tank t